Speech and Debate Everythinggg

"Why Do You Do Debate?"

Writing an Oratory

Asking the postings people for information

When debaters snapchat

Sending a novice into a chamber alone

For example, Aristotle differentiates between three genres of speaking: ◗ Forensic speaking, as in a courtroom, where a speaker needs to convince a judge or jury that a certain claim is true or untrue; ◗ Deliberative speaking, as in a legislature or any decision-making setting, where a speaker is persuading others to make a certain decision or take a course of action; and ◗ Epideictic or ceremonial speaking, where the speaker is praising, blaming, or otherwise appealing to common values.

How to Stalk a Debater

Taking the novices to their first tournament

Unexpected questions

The Gender Disparity in Congressional Debate: What You Can Do

When Congress gets heated

Competing against a well-known debater

I read several dozen stories a year from miserable, lonely guys who insist that women won’t come near them despite the fact that they are just the nicest guys in the world. ..I’m asking what do you offer? Are you smart? Funny? Interesting? Talented? Ambitious? Creative? OK, now what do you do to demonstrate those attributes to the world? Don’t say that you’re a nice guy — that’s the bare minimum. “Well, I’m not sexist or racist or greedy or shallow or abusive! Not like those other douchebags!” I’m sorry, I know that this is hard to hear, but if all you can do is list a bunch of faults you don’t have, then back the fuck away… Don’t complain about how girls fall for jerks; they fall for those jerks because those jerks have other things they can offer. “But I’m a great listener!” Are you? Because you’re willing to sit quietly in exchange for the chance to be in the proximity of a pretty girl (and spend every second imagining how soft her skin must be)? Well guess what, there’s another guy in her life who also knows how to do that, and he can play the guitar. Saying that you’re a nice guy is like a restaurant whose only selling point is that the food doesn’t make you sick. You’re like a new movie whose title is This Movie Is in English, and its tagline is “The actors are clearly visible”.